Posted on 01/02/2013 1:08:28 PM PST by Red Steel
I’ve written a letter or two to Reids Senate office voicing that same sentiment.
Wrote one to boehner and mcConnel just this morning tool.
The problem is that she would be too conservative for most of the House GOP
Doesn't matter. He can still be nominated and voted as Speaker. West would be great against the Dims.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/02/john-boehner-frank-lobiondo-sandy-aid_n_2397250.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
John Boehner Yelled At Frank LoBiondo Over Sandy Aid
Must have had a meeting with his trusted adviser, Jack Daniels...
GOOD!
That would be a great move, but the castrated GOPers would never do it.
Even if boehner really did it I just can't think of him even close to being like Dick Cheney...I love this pic.
If nothing is done, if something big doesn’t happen, the GOP is completely finished. The leaders have no idea how disgusted former GOP voters are. The Party simply does not have a chance at ever gaining power again. There is no longer any reason to vote for most Republicans. They are a bunch of losers who stand for nothing except themselves.
Boehner should face a tough time renewing his birth certificate!
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>> “And, by the way, is it OK for me to ask what the turncoat Republicans got for selling us out?” <<
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Permission to keep breathing until the next critical vote.
True!
I hate to have to point this out to you, but the country is finished.
If they caved in this one, they’ll cave on everything.
Good thing they weren’t at a duck blind here!!
Speaking of which I went to the North Bank of Lake Okeechobee last week to let one of my dogs go pooh and as I stood there you could hear maybe a hundred shotgun blasts from folks in boats sitting in weeds just a waiting for dinner to come by.
My choices are in my tagline.
all good choices!
That interpretation assumes that when the Framers placed the words the House of Representatives shall choose thir Speaker in Article I of the U.S. Constitution they were not basing the speakership on the Speaker of the House of Commons of the British Parliament, which most definitely *did* need to be filled by a Member of the House of Commons. The reason that they didnt write the House of Representatives shall choose thir Speaker *from among their members* was because it was deemed to be self-evident, since the Speaker is the leader of the House and the leader must come from within the grouphad the Framers intended to allow the House to elect a Speaker that was not a member of the body, such a clear departure from parliamentary precedent would have been specifically noted, and they likely would have selected a title other than Speaker. The one instance in the U.S. Constitution where the presiding officer would not be a member of the body he presided was when the Vice President is made, ex officio, the President of the Senate, but he was specifically designated as such in Article I, and the fact that the VP is not a member of the Senate was probably the reason why they didnt baptize the presiding officer of the Senate as the Speaker of the Senate.
No one believes that the Chief Justice of the United States can be someone other than a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and, until a few years ago (when a couple of Republicans upset at Newt Gingrich voted for retired Republicans for Speaker) no one other than a sitting Representative had even received a vote for Speaker. I think the theory of the non-member of the House serving as Speaker is an interesting exercise in constitutional analysis, as is the theory that the Governor of New York could be in the line of succession to the presidency (a governor is, after all, an officer), but having a non-member serve as Speaker ultimately would be a distortion of the Framers original intent.
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